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He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

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[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

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True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.